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Fetch Robotics gets $3 million
Frank Tobe
10 Feb 2015
Ex-Willow Garage and Unbounded Robotics veterans get $3 million to bring mobile manipulator and mobile platform to market....
Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition
NCCR Robotics
10 Feb 2015
Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....
Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics
Ioannis K. Erripis
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...
2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
Andra Keay
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures[/tweetquote], which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
President Obama’s budget for 2016 includes, among other things, the Pentagon’s spending plans for the year. These include significant investments in dro...
Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics
Ben Fisher
09 Feb 2015
In Qualcomm's quest to shape the future of robotics, the US-based semi-conductor juggernaut acquired KMel Robotics last week for an undisclosed sum....
Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
ConnectEd Studios
09 Feb 2015
At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...
Recent robotics transactions
Frank Tobe
09 Feb 2015
New Chinese robotics investment fund; the RIA says 2014 North American robotics set new sales record; marine robotics company gets acquired. These stories and many more … ...
Robotics research reports project upward growth
Frank Tobe
09 Feb 2015
A flurry of robotic research analyses and reports are being sold by a variety of vendors. Most show steady growth rates — and a few project spectacular growth....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement
Thomas Schmickl
08 Feb 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness
Thomas Schmickl
08 Feb 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
Programming safety into self-driving cars
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
06 Feb 2015
For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship
The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
06 Feb 2015
In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
Audrow Nash
06 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
Human insights inspire solutions for household robots
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
05 Feb 2015
People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...
Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics
NCCR Robotics
04 Feb 2015
Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...
Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....
Liability concerns for drone co’s imposing technical measures to enforce no fly zones
Diana Marina Cooper
03 Feb 2015
Shortly after a Phantom crash-landed on the grounds of the White House, its maker, DJI, announced that it would release a mandatory firmware update that would restrict flights within 15.5 miles of dow...
Robohub Digest Jan. 2015: AI intrigue, SpaceX crash landing success, spinal cord implant
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
02 Feb 2015
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This week, we introduced the Portals, comprehensive collections of the best multimedia resources on a variety of issues on drones. Portals are now available...
Pick a place and learn about robotics
Frank Tobe
02 Feb 2015
24 robotics-related events dot the global map and offer you a range of interesting robotic conferences and trade shows. Pick a place and learn....
January fundings are off to a great start!
Frank Tobe
02 Feb 2015
Rethink Robotics, Xenix, Rapyuta, Perceptron, Skydio, Sarcos and JIBO have all announced substantial fundings for a wide range of robotic ventures. Plus there are some new funders joining the fray....
AAAI Video Competition winners
Sabine Hauert
29 Jan 2015
A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...
Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
Talking Machines
29 Jan 2015
On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
2 agricultural robotics projects funded under latest Horizon 2020
John Payne
27 Jan 2015
On January 13 the EU announced its list of robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020, the EU funding program for research and innovation. Agriculture is one of four “priority domains” for robot...
What’s next for the commercial drone industry?
Ben Fisher
27 Jan 2015
With the commercial use of drones to increase in the coming years, we wanted to take a look at where we are today and take a quick look at what is just around the corner....
Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent
Frank Tobe
26 Jan 2015
Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay area have such an abundant talent pool that global companies and startups alike are setting up research labs and offices there to secure engineering and ...
Japanese Robots: ActiveRobo SAM wants your seat, not your job
Reno Tibke
26 Jan 2015
If it can be simply installed and removed, if the controls are easy for both veteran and new operators, if together this creates a near-human surrogate, the ActiveRobo SAM could upend the entire R/C c...
‘Quadcopter’ crashes onto White House grounds, poses security threat
Ben Fisher
26 Jan 2015
The White House was put on high alert today as a drone was flown at low altitude onto the south-east side of the complex. A secret service spokesperson said "An investigation is under way to determine...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/26/15
The Drone Center is pleased to mark the 100th edition of our Weekly Roundup of drone news, commentary and analysis, art, and technology. We sent out the first Roundup almost two years ago to a group ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour
Thomas Schmickl
25 Jan 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research
Marta Palau Franco
23 Jan 2015
euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
Audrow Nash
23 Jan 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
Obama connects robots to jobs in State of the Union address
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
US President Barack Obama linked robots and jobs in his sixth State of the Union address this Tuesday. The State of the Union Address is usually delivered annually by the President in a joint sessio...
RoboThespian co-hosts new robot documentary from CBC – “Roboticize Me”
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
Roboticize Me is a new documentary co-hosted by Peter Keleghan and his android sidekick RoboThespian. Produced by CBC's Doc Zone, the documentary looks at what’s driving our need to develop intel...
DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk
NCCR Robotics
21 Jan 2015
The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...
